Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) (1802–1871) Scottish publisher and writer
Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 17
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
"The Meaning of Confederalism," Green Perspectives, no. 20 (1990).
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Joseph Nye (1937) American political scientist
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 9, A New World Order?, p. 262.
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: If evil exists it must exist either in Gods or minds or souls or bodies. It does not exist in any God, for all god is good. If anyone speaks of a "bad mind" he means a mind without mind. If of a bad soul, he will make the soul inferior to body, for no body in itself is evil. If he says that evil is made up of soul and body together, it is absurd that separately they should not be evil, but joined should create evil.
“Unlike television — at least as it currently exists — the Internet is a medium of choice.”
Nicholas Negroponte (1943) American computer scientist
Being Nicholas, The Wired Interview by Thomas A. Bass http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bd1101bn.htm
Charles Babbage (1791–1871) mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable c…
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 8 "Of the Analytical Engine"
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
Context: As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Principles of Mathematics (1903), p. 450
1900s
James C. Scott book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Source: Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (2017), pp. 7-8
“There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Norman Spinrad book The Void Captain's Tale
Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 10 (p. 124)
